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As teachers, we are always looking for two things: how to start the year off and how to connect the everyday to our subject. Here’s an activity I have my students complete at the beginning of the year. It’s a

I can’t remember the last time I read a full-featured magazine article through to the end – and last night, while sipping coffee on the back deck, I read two. I’m finding, more and more, that many articles found in

DYK: In one year (2014), the world spent over $1.6 trillion on the military, over 1/3 of which was spent by one country…the United States. DYK: The United States spends more on their military than the rest of NATO (#2)

I’ve been doing some research of late on how to better integrate ArcGIS into my classroom and I came across Story Maps by ESRI. ESRI and their app ArcGIS have been the de facto GIS software for schools (at least here in Ontario)

Back in the good old days of chalk talk and overheads, I took a certain pride in my geography diagrams of convergent and divergent plates and the global circulation model. In fact, I still use the whiteboard and coloured markers

Just drop the word “supervolcano” at the beginning of a lesson and – wow! – are the students energized and inquisitive. Many of them have heard of supervolcanoes, some may have seen video and others may even connect them to Yellowstone

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